These are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.  These are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.  These are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.

This is me, gaslighting. I’ve heard it’s a great way to get your messaging across. I thought I’d give it a try.

Geezus crapp where to start.  I am smothered with blogging material.  I have typed up pages of shit the past two days and it’s more disorganized than the Trump response to the pandemic crisis.  So what I intend to do is try and address one topic at a time.  Here goes.

First off, just a quick shout out for Rick Wilson’s book “Everything Trump Touches Dies.” It would seem to be a perfect companion read to what follows.  Hold off your purchase though.  I would guess there will be a second edition coming up. Certainly the Republican party should be added to the list of things Trump has sent to the grave. Here is my blog about that.

And in a freakishly twisted fashion, Donald Trump has actually initiated the demise of his own political career, and subjected himself to criminal charges of insurection in the process.  If you are president of the United States, these are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.

Before I go through a compressed time line of Trump’s crazy behavior on the 6th of January, I should point out the ingrediants for self implosion have been obvious for a long time- Trump’s narcissistic tendencies and a consuming compulsion to lie are primary.  Secondary are all the enablers and contributors of misinformation- Republican sycophants and social media trolls.  I could detail that in muliple pages but in the interst of time I will save that for later. Maybe. If I can summon any enthusiasm.

OK, so Trump has his crowd in front of him and things are looking good.  Acolytes address the throng one after another.  Rudy Giuliani: “trial by combat.”  Congressman Mo Brooks: “time for kicking ass.”  Donald Jr.: “we’re coming for you.”  After a suitable period of priming has passed, the president himself addresses his minions with catchy phrases like …the election is an “egregious assault on our democracy” and “you will never take back our country with weakness.”  Trump’s got ’em where he wants ’em now, and sends them on their way to the U.S. Capital. At this point you could easily say these are not the words and deeds of a normal human being, but regardless, Trump is quite pleased with the way things are going.

Although Trump told his MAGA army he would be tagging along with them, he changed his mind and decided to return to the White House and watch events as they developed on television. I can just imagine him sitting on a couch with Stephen Miller munching  popcorn.  Now, how things proceeded next is detail related by Senator Ben Sasse.  I want to emphsize I am not making this up.

According to Sasse, Trump was “delighted” when he saw  the initial breach of the Capitol building.  Apparently, things were going precisely as planned.  In fact it has been reported he was surprised when others (admittedly “others” have not been identified) didn’t seem to share his enthusiasm.  These are definitely not the words and deeds of a normal human being.

But it got even worse.  In the middle of all the mayhem, with the members of congress hiding in terror inside building bunkers, Trump and Giuliani made phone calls to senators, not to offer help or inquire about their situation, but to ask if they might do the president a favor and overturn the election. These are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.

Wait, there’s more. When Trump finally showed some alarm, it was not because of all the destruction and chaos going on. The optics that bothered him were of the insurrectionists themselves.  He didn’t appreciate their “look.”  There has been no reporting that I know of that has clarified what appearance is expected of a true Trump vandal. My guess is modified buffalo skull headgear is a bit put-offish for him.  You probably shouldn’t count on any production of MAGA hats sized and constructed to accommodate that type of accessory. Anyway, these are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.

So to sum up, what unfolded at the U.S. Capital building on January 6th was planned and instigated by the President of the United States, and all pretty much went according to his plan.   The execution of violence, carnage and death upon and inside the building that most of us hold as our nation’s most sacred, and emblomatic of what our country stands for, is the perfect revenge for a sick autocratic president bent on airing his grievance of failing to be re-elected.  These are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.

That book I mentioned at the beginning- “Everyting Trump Touches Dies.”  If the title seems a bit hyperbolic, consider the fate of Mike Pence. To him I imagine there  is something chillingly literal about it when you hear an angry mob’s chant  that includes your name and the word “hang” in it.

It is so ironic that Trump’s final MAGA rally as president, his favorite vehicle for pumping out his lies and airing his grievances, the place where he could do that so successfully and with such resouding approval and applause, turned into a political  Frankenstein that threatens to shatter the reality he created with all his lies.  How he became so absorbed in the moment and found it so despirately necessary to keep feeding his ego because in his mind all the chaos was  justifiable, and was such a riveting form of entertainment for him, is something  psychologists will be studying for years to come.

There is a lot to unpack here.  As incomprehensible as it sounds , we have got to figure out how to persuade people to grasp and appreciate what is true.  And after all of this I think we will have to institute some sort of mental competency assessment of our presidential candidates. I mean this guy was just too much. He has left an odorous trail of things we need to fix. I keep saying that, Trump commits something else nefarious, and I repeat.   As we know, the repetition is desensitizing.  But between the phone call to Secretary of State Raffensberger and this “in your face” sedition, Trump has flat out proven beyond a shadow of doubt he is unfit to hold any elected office of any kind. This is not something we can just let pass, as we have been accomstomed to doing.  These are not the words and deeds of normal human being.